Billionaire investor Carl Icahn says he has built up a "large" stake in Apple saying that the company is "extremely undervalued".

Thieves and fraudsters should not be jailed, a legal expert says in a pamphlet released by the Howard League for Penal Reform.

A group of former Army officers will visit Downing Street later to demand the option of UK resettlement for Afghan interpreters who worked for British forces.

UN officials have begun inspecting an arms shipment found on a North Korean ship, Panama's security minister says.

Children born to obese and overweight mothers are more likely to die early of heart disease, a study suggests.

Twelve young ospreys taken from nests in Scotland have been released in northern Spain, in an attempt to restore a breeding population.

The basic rights of some mental health patients in England are being "violated" because of a shortage of beds in psychiatric units, MPs say.

Two women held in Peru over suspected drug trafficking have said they were forced at gunpoint to do it, a senior churchman who has visited them says.